ROUNDUP: South minor softball moves to region semis

From staff reports

Alizabeth Schuler threw a one-hit shutout as the South Williamsport minor division softball team remained undefeated at the Eastern Regional with 2-0 win over New Jersey.

With the win, South Williamsport finished 4-0 in the Mid-Atlantic pool and advanced to this morning’s semifinals. It will face New England pool runner-up Maine.

South Williamsport got the only run it would need in the bottom of the first inning when Schuler singled and was driven home by a Kendall Cardone RBI double. The two teamed up again in the bottom of the third with Schuler scoring on a Cardone RBI single.

Schuler struck out 14 batters to make the two runs stand up for the win.

Should South Williamsport win this morning, it would face the winner of the Connecticut/New Jersey game in the Eastern Regional championship game at 1:15 p.m.

• Muncy’s Ethan Gush is in seventh place at the Crossfit Games in Wisconsin after the first day of competition in the boys 14-15-year-old age group.

The sophomore was one of just 20 participants in the world to qualify for the Crossfit Games in his age category and entered the games ranked 21st in the world in his age group. He opened the competition yesterday finishing sixth in the doubles & oly, 11th in the handstand walk and seventh in the AG battleground.

His finish in each event gives him a point value and through the first day he had earned 134 points. Tudor Magda leads the competition with 232 points.

Gush will compete in three more events today before getting a rest day Friday. He’ll then compete in the final two events Saturday.